Lin Lu Ninghua's transcripts and 譒Translation
Dr. Chen ChangningDr. Daniel Tan Continue to introduce the different areas of mental illness :
- Neurosexual behavior disorders: such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism.
- Mood disorders: such as depression, bipolar disorder, manic depression.
- Anxiety disorder: general anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, panic attack, sequelae of trauma, insomnia
- Thinking disorders: schizophrenia, paranoia, mental disorders.
- Drug Abuse Disorder: Alcoholism
What is the mental illness that children usually encounter??
Anxiety disorder: Persistent fear, worry or anxiety that prevents children from participating in games, classes or normal social activities.Children will also have social anxiety disorder, general anxiety disorder and coercive disorder.Some fears (phobia) are relatively mild and can be overcome, such as being bitten by a dog, which can be overcome slowly over time.Persistent fear is not easy to drive away.
Compared with other children of the same age, children with ADHD-ADHD will have difficulty concentrating, and behave more impulsively and hyperactively. ADHD is a big problem.Mainly because there is no correct diagnosis.The diagnosis is more controversial, and these children will have more personal pain and struggle. (Next, Dr. Chen will discuss children with ADHD in more depth) If these children do not have good treatment, although they have normal intelligence, they often fail to keep up with their studies at school and fail.It even affects their ability to face life.Exams are a big challenge for them, especially multiple-choice questions. The biggest problem with these multiple-choice questions is that their answers are often not the only answers.The answer is "the best answer" so it becomes very difficult to answer.Therefore, if your child has ADHD, remember that the answer he chose is not a single answer in ABCDE, which has different variables, such as A and C, D and E, etc.One answer or all of the above answers are correct.These will pose great challenges to children with ADHD.
Autism: It is one of the neurological symptoms.Autism often occurs in younger children, often before the age of three.Although each child has different levels of symptoms, usually these children have difficulty communicating and interacting with others.For children with autism, the sooner they can find out, the earlier the treatment is the most important.
Eating disorder: It is defined as being too attached to an ideal body image, looking too much at personal weight, often losing weight, and developing unhealthy eating habits.Eating disorders include, for example, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.In many cases, it will cause emotional and social imbalance, and even cause health problems.This symptom is not very common, but it does exist.Many times it is related to depression, and this symptom is very difficult to treat.
Melancholia: Persistent depression and sadness, and have no interest in many things. Therefore, there is a problem with their academic and social style.
Bipolarity is precisely the two extremes that go up emotionally. One is severely emotional, or behavioral extremes, and even dangerous behaviors such as indulgence of lust, which may be caused by depression.
Traumatic sequelae: Prolonged depression or volatility caused by victims of abuse, violence or sexual assault, witnessing violent events, experiencing trauma or other sudden injuries.
Have memory disorders, nightmares or destructive behaviors, etc.These may last a long time.
Sentimental disorder: thinking disorder.This symptom makes the patient divorced from reality in perception and thinking.It usually occurs in late adolescence, between 14 and 20 years of age.This condition can also cause them to have auditory hallucinations, irregular thinking and behavior.This symptom is usually an imbalance of brain chemicals, not necessarily due to environmental influences.Usually doctors believe that if this symptom occurs in younger adolescents, the symptoms will get worse.Therefore, the earlier the diagnosis, the earlier the treatment is the most important.
Myths about teenagers with mental illness :
Myth 1. A teenager with a mental illness is ruined throughout his life.This is absolutely wrong.In fact, the teenagers with mental illness we are talking about are very treatable.It is necessary to prescribe the right medicine, have the correct diagnosis, medication and psychological counseling. In fact, these teenagers can lead a normal life and even be very successful.
Myth 2. Teenagers have mental illnesses because of their weak personality.This is also a wrong view.A good example is private tutoring in Asia.When a child cannot keep up at school, parents will send them to private tutoring.In fact, they do not study well at school, maybe because they have some mental problems such as ADHD.Finally, private tuition schools are very popular and successful in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea.In fact, the main reason may be that the child has problems with concentration.
Myth 3. The cause of adolescents is a problem with parental upbringing.In fact, there is no research index that proves that children and adolescents with mental illness are caused by poor parenting.The upbringing defects of adolescent parents contribute to the formation of mental illness, but it is not the main factor that completely causes the illness of young people.
Myth 4. We can use our will to control the disorders and symptoms of mental illness.
We can use ADHD as an example. The main treatment for ADHD relies on drugs. This is the best treatment.American professional organizations such as American Pediatric Association and American Academy of Children and Adolescent, these two large professional organizations will tell you that medication is the best solution.When you have a correct diagnosis and then use drugs to help this child, their success rate in growing up in society and personal life is very high.On the contrary, we may not have noticed that in American studies, almost half of prisoners in prisons suffer from ADHD.Very high than the law.They encountered obstacles in school because of ADHD. They also lacked better educational opportunities due to social and family background factors, so he dropped out of school very early.Without good educational opportunities, they can easily commit crimes.This is a big problem.
Myth 5. This is just a transitional period, we can ignore it, and these symptoms will disappear naturally.
In fact, these symptoms will not disappear naturally.This is just an ostrich policy. Sweep the dust under the carpet. Over time, we can no longer ignore when the dust piles up like a mountain.
Myth 6. Psychological counseling for children is a waste of money.
In fact, this is that we should consider using psychological counseling, which is certainly not a waste of money.There is a big gap in the quality of psychological counseling. The main reason is to look for experienced psychotherapists.For example, the therapist at the Horn Sound Counseling Center.If we want to hire a lawyer, we will definitely find an experienced one.Or if I want to find a doctor who performs operations on our shoulders, we will also find a doctor who performs operations three or four times a day!
Myth 7. The child has overdose today.
Unfortunately, parents' views on their children's medication are different in different cultures.American parents are more accepting of medication, they are more open to medication and less resistant.Unlike my parents in Asia, in the process of communicating with many parents, I found that children with ADHD, for example, even if their parents know that their children have ADHD, they are still very resistant to medication.Under certain circumstances, the drug does have an amazing effect. We have to overcome the fear of the drug and give the drug a chance to give your child a chance of success.
Myth 8. As children grow up, they will naturally escape from mental illness.
This is also incorrect.Yes, some children seem to have less symptoms as they grow up, and they seem to heal naturally.In fact, many children's symptoms are increasing.
Next time we will continue to reprint the name of Dr. Chen. We talked about the consequences of mentally ill teenagers without treatment.